2007-07-09 06:55:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Poison-dart frog! One drop can kill 1000 mice!
2007-07-09 23:11:13 · answer #1 · answered by FN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Golden Poison Frog, Phyllobates Terribilis, (meaning, "the terrible").
It is more poisonous than any other poison dart frog. An average P. terribilis contains about one milligram of poison, which is enough to kill 10,000 mice-perhaps enough to kill 10 to 20 humans if the poison reaches their bloodstreams.
This extraordinarily lethal poison (a steroid alkaloid, called batrachotoxin) almost does not occur in nature. The poison has only been found among three poison frogs in Colombia and two poison frogs in Papua, New Guinea.
The reason why the Golden Poison Frog is so poisonous is because it eats its own poison. The frog apparently eats the same poison as his own but produced by some OTHER CREATURE. He eats the unknown creatures as we might eat shrimp or chicken: just standard food. Frogs grown in captivity, however, can't eat the same food and they are NOT poisonous. It would be interesting to find out what that "other creature" is. Some scientists believe it is a type of beetle.
2007-07-09 14:43:15 · answer #2 · answered by wildcatfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your definition of "most poisonous". If you mean the animal with the poison that requires the smallest dose to be lethal to humans, then the poison arrow frog is near the top of the list. However, the frog has no delivery system for its poison. You'd have to eat it to get poisoned.
Animals that inject poison are called "venomous". The most deadly venomous animal is the sea wasp, a type of large jellyfish.
2007-07-09 14:03:15 · answer #3 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on who you speak to because the science world is still out to lunch on that one.
However there is a general list of top ones....
-Poison Arrow Frog
-Island Tiapan (snake)
-Boxjelly
-Stonefish
-Blue Ringed Octopus
Overall a large majority live in water, between various species of jellies, sea snakes, octopus, etc. Those that live on land tend to remain with snakes, amphibian and a few insects.
2007-07-09 14:10:17 · answer #4 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, by poisonous if you are considering "deadly", then it is the mosquito. It is the most deadly animal in the world.
By poisonous if you are referring to toxins that could kill humans, there are quite a few. Many species of rare frogs, snakes, and insects have very rancid toxins.
2007-07-09 14:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by liver_n_jello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a Small Beetle or a poison-dart frog
2007-07-09 14:03:15 · answer #6 · answered by AJ K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say sea snake , and I say a poison dart frog.
My nephew says a black widow spider
2007-07-09 23:33:25 · answer #7 · answered by Kandice F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Venomous animals like yellow-lipped sea krait (a sea snake), box jellyfish, sea wasp jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus
2007-07-09 14:05:01 · answer #8 · answered by candylanddlj 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The small Box jellyfish is as well as sea crait snakes. Thgere are many land snakes that are very deadly also
2007-07-09 14:04:18 · answer #9 · answered by Savriti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
poison arrow frog
2007-07-09 14:02:31 · answer #10 · answered by mrs sexy pants 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋